Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer; Reopen

Comptroller - Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
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Applications must be filed at:  The posting may close without notice if a suitable candidate is found. Please submit your application promptly.

We are looking for motivated and self-driven Systems Administrators to join our Cloud Administration team. The team primarily supports and manages CPA’s AWS cloud environments. Your day will include AWS account provisioning, security management, server management and maintenance, networking, storage management, and automation. You will work with multiple development teams on deployments and proof of concept designs, coordinate with security teams to ensure high security standards, diagnose complex infrastructure issues, and automate routine processes.

Growth opportunities exist as you lead initiatives and help shape the future of the Agency’s IT infrastructure.

Work hours are 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, 40-hour week, Monday – Friday. Occasionally additional hours, including evenings, weekends, and holidays may be required. On-call responsibilities may be required for cloud support.

Teleworking may be considered if certain conditions are met. The candidate must have permanent residency in Texas and be able to meet in-office requirements, which vary by section (e.g., reporting to office 1 day/month or 1–3 days/week). Travel reimbursements are not provided for teleworking.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.
• Five (5) years’ working experience with system engineering.
• Three (3) years’ automation framework experience (e.g., Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Cloud Formation, etc.).
• Two (2) years’ working experience in AWS cloud computing technologies and techniques.
• Two (2) years’ experience performing customer service in an IT environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or related field.
• Four (4) years’ experience in Linux-based development environment.
• Three (3) years’ experience developing and deploying proofs of concept and capability demonstrations.
• Three (3) years’ experience with Apache configuration.
• Two (2) years’ experience with Linux system administration.
• Two (2) years’ experience with web server performance and capacity planning in distributed environments.
• Two (2) years’ experience with disaster recovery backup and recovery operations.
• Experience in scripting languages such as Ruby, Bash, PHP, and Python.
• Experience with firewalls and load balancers (e.g., F5, Nginx) in production data centers or cloud environments.
• Experience with deployment management of public/government cloud solutions.
• Experience in analyzing performance, load testing, and security issues.
• Three (3) years of experience with AWS cloud technologies in the areas of gateways and networking, management, orchestration, and security.

Substitutions

One (1) additional year of experience in systems engineering may substitute for thirty (30) semester hours of educational requirement, with a maximum substitution of 120 semester hours (four years).

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect
• AWS Certified Sys Ops Administrator
• Cloud+
• Linux+/LPIC-1
• LPIC-2
• LPIC-3

Technical / Operational Support

• Analyzes, recommends, and implements system changes for security, efficiency and performance.
• Deploys and maintains services comprised of management, orchestration and security technologies.
• Monitors performance, capacity, and security of cloud resources and supporting technologies.
• Performs advanced root cause analysis.

Architectural Support

• Assists in the development of solution architectures, policies and procedures. Performs research and analysis required for project proposals, system modifications and new products.
• Develops and supports complex implementations using automation frameworks and scripting. Collaborates with SMEs and customers for requirements and proposes solutions that meet objectives.

Administration

• Reviews tool sets regularly for efficiency, cost, and performance.
• Prepares disaster recovery plans and participates in disaster recovery hot site testing.

Performs other duties as assigned,…